Hi Rob, If you can still see text on the screen (very faintly), then it is a good chance that you have a blown inverter board. Luckily on most Powerbooks this is located inside the machine and not in the display.
The part is generally a sub $100 item, and about a 20 minute fix (on average). Different story if it was an iBook ;-) I've replaced too many of those *&^%^ inverters in white iBooks! They're located in the screen! Bah! Seeya Rod! On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 20:41 +0800, Rob Phillips wrote: > WAMUGers > > I am in a small city in Indonesia (Malang). My Powerbook is faulty. > The screen keeps going dead. The machine keeps running, but after > about 10 minutes the screen goes black. Sometimes it comes back after > sleep (closing the lid or menu command). Sometimes is looks like the > brightness is turned down really low. > > After a restart it comes back to life, but for shorter and shorter > periods - down to about 10 mins. Hope I have time to finish this > email! > > Any suggestions? Is it the sleep switch on the motherboard? A loose > connection? Related to the stiff hinges? Overheating? > > Is there any way I can get the machine to be set up to continuously > mirror the screen, so I can use an external monitor? I ran the > hardware test, but no errors were found. > > Any other ideas? > > I have to give a big talk on Wednesday. > > Hoping for some help... > Rob :-\ >
